Hi,

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 01:12, John D Taylor III wrote:
> Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested.  I tried opening and saving
> documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent
> documents is is no documents.  Thanks for trying.
>
> John D. Taylor III

The list of the recent documents is stored now (OOo 3.1.0) in the file
<Histories.xcu>.
Path: <...\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Histories.xcu>.

You may have a look at →
Clearing Recent Document History
<http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18588>

Manfred


> Brian Barker wrote:
>> At 16:04 03/06/2009 -0400, John D Taylor III wrote:
>>>
>>> Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents.  Is there
>>> something that I am supposed to turn on?  Is anyone else having this
>>> trouble? I don't know when the problem started, I just know that when I
>>> opened the writer this last seven or eight times there were no recent
>>> documents and writer.
>>
>> At 16:11 03/06/2009 -0400, John D Taylor III wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, I forgot about that. I running windows XP.
>>
>> This information is apparently stored in one of the per-user configuration
>> files.  One possibility is that this file has become corrupted or lost.  If
>> you delete such files, OpenOffice will often create new copies for you.
>>  This is very much a guess, but you might like to try this:
>> o  Close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter.
>> o  Rename C:\Documents and Settings\<login-name>\Application
>> Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Common.xcu -
>> where <login-name> is the name of the account you use.  (This way, you can
>> recover the file if the scheme fails.)
>> o  Restart OpenOffice and test.
>>
>> Application Data is a hidden folder, so you may have to turn on the
>> display of hidden items in order to browse to and through it.
>>
>> I trust this helps.
>>
>> Brian Barker

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